During the 2021 annual meeting, in a talk entitled: “Are You There?” governing body member Geoffrey Jackson explains a doctrinal adjustment to the understanding of Jesus words in John 5:28,29: Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come […]
I really enjoy watching action movies but sometimes my critical thinking gets the better of me. While visiting a science laboratory a young man is bitten by a deadly super spider. His senses are enhanced and he even gains a new one that enables him to sense impending danger. Soon, he is swinging from the […]
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, […]
Jesus said to them: “The children of this system of things marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 In fact, neither can they die anymore, for they are like the […]
Jesus spoke of performing the resurrection at the last day: And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. (Joh 6:39 ESV) For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks […]
And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. (Acts 24:15) With the creation of the first human pair, the only mention of death was a punishment for disobedience. Adam was told that if he […]
It is widely taught that man is comprised of a material body and an immaterial soul. At death it is believed that the immaterial soul survives the death of the body and goes on to experience conscious existence either in heaven with God or experiences conscious torment in hellfire. Does the Bible teach this concept? […]
So also it is written, “The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, so also are those who […]